Sketchbook Adventures of Peter Poplaski

THE SKETCHBOOK
ADVENTURES of PETER POPLASKI (2005),with an
Introduction by R. Crumb.

Poplaski is an "artist's
artist," widely admired by the comics industry
cognoscenti. He drew ten definitive BATMAN
and SUPERMAN covers for the historic Sundays
and Dailies series co-published by DC Comics &
Kitchen Sink Press in the '80s and '90s. He was
Kitchen Sink's Art Director for many years, working
closely with and designing books for Harvey
Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, R. Crumb
and other cartooning giants. Poplaski authored and
designed the recent Best-Seller (100,000+ copies 1st
month), THE R. CRUMB HANDBOOK (MQP
Publishing). Poplaski's eccentric penchant for
dressing in costume as ZORRO was pictured in both
the New York Times and New Yorker
and captured earlier in the pages of Crumb's Hup!
and within this sketchbook.

The bottom line is
that Poplaski is an extraordinary artist in his own
right. The Sketchbook Adventures of Peter
Poplaski contains several hundred finely
detailed observations of people and places, many in
the small town in France where he lives, near Robert
and Aline Crumb, two of his biggest fans. Others
professionals contributing back cover blurbs:
Will Eisner, Frank Miller, Mark Schultz and Harlan
Ellison.

To
be a serious artist is a heroic act of
will. In the contemporary world, the
marks made by such an artist, whether by
pencil, brush or chisel, should be bold,
direct, and above all, mean something,
like the "mark" of Zorro, the adventure
character created by Johnston McCulley
in 1919. Zorro is the heroic
personification of what an artist should
be: a man of culture by day who
transforms into a man of action by
night, riding to balance the scales of
justice. For an artist, to render some
sort of truth about life and the
experience of the world is the highest
form of justice.

This
sketchbook is a collection of little
duels with nature: parry, riposte,
lunge, retreat, culled from many
sketchbooks maintained during tours of
America and Europe over an 8 year
period. They are practice sessions
leading up to the more difficult assault
of painting. It is a battle that begins
at dawn, for me every day.

~ Pete
Poplaski

Peter Poplaski is an artist who has dabbled in the
American comic book industry for over three decades,
mostly as a freelancer for Kitchen Sink Press,
Marvel, and DC Comics. HE has edited and designed
numerous award-wining newspaper strip reprint
collections including Superman, Batman, Flash
Gordon, Alley Oop, Li'l Abner, and Steve Canyon. The
covers he drew for the Batman and Superman Dailies
and Sundays series are regarded by many as
definitive. He has worked closely with such creators
as Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, Harvey Kurtzman, Gil
Kane, Alan Moore, and Robert Crumb. His current
project is co-authoring the R. Crumb Handbook
with the artist for MQ Publications in London. But
his ongoing challenge and obsession is finishing ZORRO:
The Myth and the Image, a definitive
study of the masked heroic archetype. To see some other
Poplaski-designed items available in this web store,
type Poplaski in our search bar.

THE SKETCHBOOK
ADVENTURES of PETER POPLASKI (2005),with an
Introduction by R. Crumb.

Poplaski is an "artist's
artist," widely admired by the comics industry
cognoscenti. He drew ten definitive BATMAN
and SUPERMAN covers for the historic Sundays
and Dailies series co-published by DC Comics &
Kitchen Sink Press in the '80s and '90s. He was
Kitchen Sink's Art Director for many years, working
closely with and designing books for Harvey
Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, R. Crumb
and other cartooning giants. Poplaski authored and
designed the recent Best-Seller (100,000+ copies 1st
month), THE R. CRUMB HANDBOOK (MQP
Publishing). Poplaski's eccentric penchant for
dressing in costume as ZORRO was pictured in both
the New York Times and New Yorker
and captured earlier in the pages of Crumb's Hup!
and within this sketchbook.

The bottom line is
that Poplaski is an extraordinary artist in his own
right. The Sketchbook Adventures of Peter
Poplaski contains several hundred finely
detailed observations of people and places, many in
the small town in France where he lives, near Robert
and Aline Crumb, two of his biggest fans. Others
professionals contributing back cover blurbs:
Will Eisner, Frank Miller, Mark Schultz and Harlan
Ellison.

To
be a serious artist is a heroic act of
will. In the contemporary world, the
marks made by such an artist, whether by
pencil, brush or chisel, should be bold,
direct, and above all, mean something,
like the "mark" of Zorro, the adventure
character created by Johnston McCulley
in 1919. Zorro is the heroic
personification of what an artist should
be: a man of culture by day who
transforms into a man of action by
night, riding to balance the scales of
justice. For an artist, to render some
sort of truth about life and the
experience of the world is the highest
form of justice.

This
sketchbook is a collection of little
duels with nature: parry, riposte,
lunge, retreat, culled from many
sketchbooks maintained during tours of
America and Europe over an 8 year
period. They are practice sessions
leading up to the more difficult assault
of painting. It is a battle that begins
at dawn, for me every day.

~ Pete
Poplaski

Peter Poplaski is an artist who has dabbled in the
American comic book industry for over three decades,
mostly as a freelancer for Kitchen Sink Press,
Marvel, and DC Comics. HE has edited and designed
numerous award-wining newspaper strip reprint
collections including Superman, Batman, Flash
Gordon, Alley Oop, Li'l Abner, and Steve Canyon. The
covers he drew for the Batman and Superman Dailies
and Sundays series are regarded by many as
definitive. He has worked closely with such creators
as Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, Harvey Kurtzman, Gil
Kane, Alan Moore, and Robert Crumb. His current
project is co-authoring the R. Crumb Handbook
with the artist for MQ Publications in London. But
his ongoing challenge and obsession is finishing ZORRO:
The Myth and the Image, a definitive
study of the masked heroic archetype. To see some other
Poplaski-designed items available in this web store,
type Poplaski in our search bar.